Week 1 Flashcards
comes from living things
organic compounds
salts, rocks. metals
inorganic compounds
What is the belief that compounds obtained from living things possessed a “vital force” that inorganic compounds did not have?
Vitalism
Frist person to disprove vitalsim,
Freidrick Woher
Isomers with the same molecular formula not the same structure
Constitutional isomers
Atom that wants 4 bonds
Tetravalent
Atom that wants 3 bonds
Trivalent
Atom that wants 2 bonds
Divalent
sharing electrons
covalent
lower potential energy=
more stable
formal charge formula
= (# of valence e- for element) - [lone pairs + 1/2 of bonding e-)
the measure of the ability of an atom to attract e- to itself when part of a molecule
electronegativity
no electronegativity
pure covalent
EN = 0.1-0.5
non-polar covalent
EN= .5-1.7
polar covalent (dipole moment)